The US economy added 353,000 jobs in January, starting off 2024 with a bang | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
‘No end in sight’: Blackstone CEO doesn't think the US can handle another term under President Biden — or what he calls 'four more years' of debt misery. But is it really that bad? (finance.yahoo.com)
Middletown man posts Youtube video claiming to show beheaded father in Levittown (www.phillyburbs.com)
“The video, reviewed by this news organization, includes a manifesto-style rant in which Mohn calls on his followers to take action against federal employees. It is titled “Call to Arms for American Patriots.”...
Judge strikes down Elon Musk’s massive, multi-billion-dollar pay package | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
A Delaware state court judge has thrown out the 2018 pay package that helped to make Tesla CEO Elon Musk one of the richest people in the world.
Teacher who showed Muhammad cartoon still in hiding 3 years later, The former head of religious studies at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire is unlikely ever to return home, his family say (www.thetimes.co.uk)
List of killings ordered by mohammad...
House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security's Mayorkas over the border (apnews.com)
Republicans contend Mayorkas is guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that amount to a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” on immigration and a “breach of the public trust.” Impeachment, they say, is “Congress’s only viable option.”...
Rite Aid’s ‘reckless’ use of facial recognition got it banned from using the technology in stores for five years | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Oakland California's largest employer advises employees to eat lunch on campus due to crime risk (www.nbcbayarea.com)
Fake rich? Affluent millennials are more likely to exaggerate to appear wealthy (www.cnbc.com)
Feds will try Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey for a third time (reason.com)
Pilots at Southwest ratify a contract that will boost their pay raises by nearly 50% by 2028 (apnews.com)
Pilots at Southwest Airlines have overwhelmingly approved a new contract that will raise their pay rates by nearly 50% by 2028, becoming the last group of pilots at the nation’s four biggest airlines to score huge raises....
Police chief fired after twice asking captain’s wife for nude photos on Snapchat (nypost.com)
How a legal loophole allows anti-abortion prosecutors to obtain women’s secret health data (www.dallasnews.com)
Some leading drug store chains turn over customers’ private health care information without a warrant....
Trump’s next trial: E. Jean Carroll seeks $10M in defamation case (thehill.com)
Fresh off his runaway win in the nation’s first 2024 presidential nominating contest, the next phase of former President Trump’s courtroom chronicles will begin Tuesday as a jury convenes to determine how much Trump must pay for defaming a longtime advice columnist....
DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies in the workplace (apnews.com)
Pro-Israel Effort to Smear Penn President Started Well Before Oct. 7 (theintercept.com)
Oregon Supreme Court won’t remove Trump from ballot for now, says it’s waiting on SCOTUS (www.cnn.com)
The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a bid to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban,” saying it’s waiting for the US Supreme Court to rule on the issue....
2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin (www.theguardian.com)
2023 “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing “dramatic testimony” of how much warmer and more dangerous today’s climate is from the cooler one in which human civilisation developed....
US naval officer sentenced to two years in prison over spying for China (www.theguardian.com)
U.S. oil production has hit a record under Biden, but he seldom mentions it. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Diversity offices on college campuses will soon be illegal in Texas, as 30 new laws go into effect (www.texastribune.org)
When Texas college students return to their campuses after the winter break, they’ll discover the lights are still off in their campuses’ diversity offices....
Chinese chess champion stripped of title after defecating in hotel bathtub (www.theguardian.com)
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U.S. Faces Second-Worst Year On Record For Mass Shootings—Nearly 650 Incidents (www.forbes.com)
Multiple people injured in shooting at Florida mall, police say (abcnews.go.com)
Putin ally 'behind bomb' that killed Wagner boss, new report alleges (i.stuff.co.nz)
